Bücher von Martin Jay

The Frankfurt School's own legacy is best preserved by exercising an immanent critique of its premises and the conclusions to which they often led. By distinguishing between what is still and what is no longer alive in Critical Theory, these essays seek to demonstrate its continuing relevance in the 21st century.

Demonstrates the potential for cultural criticism in intellectual history. This book discusses such controversies as the Habermas-Gadamer debate and the deconstructionist challenge to synoptic analysis. It is of interest to students and teachers of modern European history, political and social theory.

Force Fields collects the recent essays of Martin Jay, an intellectual historian and cultural critic internationally known for his extensive work on the history of Western Marxism and the intellectual migration from Germany to America.